RAYMOND E BIBEAU, Obituary, Fergus Co., MT

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Lewistown paper   no date
Lewistown, MT - Fergus County

Raymond E Bibeau, 82, Lewistown died Monday morning at the Central Montana Medical Center of 
natural causes.

He was born Sept. 9, 1911, in Rockford, IL, the son of Edward and Mary Bibeau. The family moved to a 
homestead in Phillips County, south of Malta, when he was an infant.

At the age of nine, he assumed the responsibility as the man of the house following his fathers death.  He 
married Mae Hardin in 1934 at Malta. The couple had two sons, Bill and Dick.

He moved to Fergus County in 1938 where he worked in the mine at Ruby Gulch in the power house.  He 
received certification as a diesel mechanic from the Chicago Institute of Technology in 1947.

He owned and operated Bibeau’s Diesel Service in Lewistown from 1952 until 1957. He then moved to 
Alaska and worked for the Federal Aviation Administration.

He met Cecelia Hadella in Lewistown in 1961 and they married June 16, 1961, in Livingston. They lived in 
Anchorage, Alaska, until 1963 when they returned to Lewistown.

He worked for the Air Force Seaman Team from Malmstrom. He also worked for local diesel shops until his 
retirement, due to illness, in 1988. 

He was preceded in death by his parents, one brother and one sister.

Survivors include his wife, Cecelia of Lewistown: two sons, William (Bill) of Jordan and Richard (Dick) of 
Auburn, Wash.; two stepsons, Bruce Hadella of Great Falls and Barry Hadella of Bozeman; one 
stepdaughter, Diane McInally of Missoula: one sister, Mabel Schnedmiller of Billings: 10 grandchildren; 
four great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.

Memorial services will be Thursday, Dec. 2, at 1 p m, at St. Leo's Catholic Church. Cremation has taken 
place, with burial of ashes at Lewistown City Cemetery.

Friends are asked to make memorials to the Kidney Fund at the Central Montana Medical Center or the 
Montana Lung Association, which may be left a the Cloyd Funeral Home.